Lucartha Kohler
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Selected One and Two Woman Exhibitions

Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, The Fools Journey: A Jungian Approach to the Tarot, 2000

Rosenwald- Wolf Gallery, Window on Broad, The University of the Arts, Phila PA, 1999

PNI Gallery, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia PA. 1999

Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, "Myth and Form, Lucartha Kohler and Morgot Gotoff". 1998

White Flint Arts Program, White Flint, North Bethesda, MD 1998

Design arts Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, 1997

Fleisher Art Memorial,, Faculty Gallery, Philadelphia PA 1995

JAB Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1994

Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, 1992

The Glass Gallery, Festival of Light VI, Bethesda, MD, 1992

Esther M. Klein Gallery: University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA, 1990

Giannetta Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1987

Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, 1982

Susanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1981

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 1980

Selected Group Exhibitions

Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal B/C, Destination Philadelphia, Philadelphia Sculptors, 2000

Reading Terminal Headhouse, Destination Philadelphia, Philadelphia Sculptors, 2000

Craft Allaince, St Louis, MO, Figures: Alone and Together, 2000

Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Goblet Show, 1999, 2000

Budapest Gallery, Budapest , Hungary, Old World, New World, Common Ground, 1999*

Gallery of American Crafts, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, Artists of the Creative Glass Center of America, 1999

Vitrum Gallerie, Philadelphia, PA, Premonitions, 1999

Peters Valley Gallery Without Walls, Morristown, NJ, Art in the Open, 1999

Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, 1998

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, Philadelphia Sculptors, 1998*

Aichi Prefecture Museum, Seto, Japan, Cold Fusion, 1998*

New Jersey State Museum Trenton, NJ, 30 Years of Collecting Contemporary Crafts, 1997

The Gallery of American Crafts at Wheaton Village, Millville NJ, A Woman’s Approach to the Figure, 1997

Washington Square, Washington DC, Transferring Energy, 1997

Morgan at Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, for/by/about women, 1997

Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, CALIDO, 1997

Whatcom Museum of History and Art, 1998,Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, 1999

Philadelphia College of Textiles, Paley Design Center, Philadelphia, PA1 Screen, 2 Souls, 4 Hands, 1997

Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The Varieties of Religion, 1997

City Hall, Philadelphia PA, Art in City Hall, 1 Screen, 2 Souls, 4 Hands, 1996

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual Crafts, 1996*

Lyons/Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX, Northeast Aesthetic, 1996

Miller Gallery, NY,NY, Figurative Invitational Annual, 1994, 1995, 1996

Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, One of a Kind, One of Many, 1995

Philabaum Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, Interior Motives, 1995, Homo Vitreus, 1996

Grohe Gallery, Boston, MA, Bare Essentials, 1995

Sable V Gallery, Wimberly, TX, A Gathering of Glass, 1994, 1995

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, New Jersey Arts Annual, Crafts, 1995*

Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Fl, Please Be Seated, Master of the Art of Seating, 1995*

JAB Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Don Friel, Blown Glass, Lucartha Kohler, Cast Glass, 1995

Ariana Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, Glass a Woman’s Touch, 1995, Sandscript, 1996

The Gallery at Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, Glass Analogies, 1994

Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Face to Face, Portraits and Self Portraits, 1994

Vermont State Craft Center, Manchester, VT, The Ubiquitous Bowl II, 1994

Owen Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Sculptural Glass Goblets, 1994

Kittnell Rittkind Art Glass, Dallas, TX, Glass, Two Artists, Two Interpretations, 1994

Lacoste Gallery Cambridge, MA, Return of the Goddess, 1994

Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ, My Cup Runneth Over, 1993

New York Experimental Glass Workshop, NY, NY, Goblet Exhibtion, 1993

Abington Art Center, Abington, PA, Ancient Sources, 1992

Borowsky Gallery, Gershwyn Y, Philadelphia, PA, Artists Confronting the inconceivable, 1992

Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The Awakened Goddess, Festival Mythos, 1991

Dawson Gallery, Rochester, NY, From the Creative Glass Center, 1991

Holstein Galleries, Stockbridge, MA, Stockbridge Invitational, 1990

State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, Expressions in Glass, 1990

*Catalog

Publications and Reviews

Pate de Verre and Kiln Casting of Glass, Jim Kervin and Dan Fenton, Glass Wear Studios, 1997

Philadelphia City Paper, April 18-24, Review, Robin Rice

Glass Magazine, Spring, 1997, Number 66, Preview, Warm is Hot by April Kingsley

Seven Arts, Dec. 1996, Vol. 4 Number 12, Visual Arts, Folding Screens at City Hall, Irene Cherkassky

Harmony’s Realm of Light, Lucartha Kohler’s Glass Sculpture, Glass Art, January/February, 1996, Volume 11, Number 2

Profile, Zanne Miller, Art Matters, Vol. 14, Number 5, Dec. 1994-Jan. 1995

Glass Magazine, Number 56, Summer 94, review

Glass Magazine, Number 48, Summer 92, review

Coming Glass, Review 12, Neues Glas, 2/91

Gallery Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 1990

Profile Button Wasseeman, Art Voices, March/April 1981

Photo Silk Screen on Glass, Glass Studio, Vol. 19, 1981

A Ceramic Shell For Casting Glass, Glass Art Society Journal, 1978

Survey of Contemporary Glass, 77, Corning Museum Microfiche

Awards

Leeway Foundation, Window of Opportunity Award, 1999

Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Design Competition, finalist, honorarium, 1995

Artists Confronting the Inconceivable Bronze Award, 1991

Wales/Philadelphia Visual Artists Exchange, Artist Residency, 1991

British American Arts Association Travel Grant, 1991

Masterworks Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, 1988

Experience

Creative Glass Center of America, Board of Trustees, 1996

Designer, Wheaton Industries, January 1984-December 1986

Curator, Crafts Gallery, Board of Directors, Philadelphia of Art Alliance, 1977-1983

Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Commissioner and Chair, 1970-76

Teaching Experience

Salem County Community College, Glass Center, 1999

The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, 1997-2000

Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, 1994-1997

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1995

Mason Gross School of Rutgers, Univ. of Newark, NJ, 1994

Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, Faculty, 1994-97

Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1994

Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX, 1995

University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1986, 1992

Demonstrate glass beadmaking, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, 1992-present

Artist in education, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1990-91

Selected Commissions

Horizon House, Philadelphia, PA, Award for Excellence, annual, 1994-1999

Scranton Area Foundation, Scranton, PA, Margaretta Belin Chamberlin Memorial Award, annual, 1992-1999

Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce/Business Volunteers for the Arts Award, 1991

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences, 1989

 

Selected Collections

Rouse and Associates Borowsky/Wagman Collection

New Jersey State Museum Morris Museum

Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly, NJ Coming Museum of Glass

Wolf, Block, Schoor and Solis-Cohen Newark Museum

Wheaton Glass Museum Ricardo Muti

Paul Stankard Collection Fox Chase Cancer Center

Education

Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Penland School of Crafts